Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Gardening on Jul 12th, 2010
The garden seemed to go into overdrive this week. The kitchen island has been loaded up every day with goodies from the garden, and the freezer is filling up fast.
The blueberries and blackberries are hitting their peak, even as the tomato harvest is just beginning. We picked about 3.5 gallons of blackberries, and a gallon [...]
Posted in Gardening on Jun 14th, 2010
When I went to check on the garlic beds yesterday I was shocked to find that some of it was ready to be dug. It’s exactly two weeks before I started digging last year, but then I remembered that I had waited too long for a couple of varieties. Not surprisingly, those were two of [...]
Posted in Gardening on Jun 7th, 2010
I do love this time of year in the garden, when the fruit is ripening and both spring and summer veggies are in the harvest bucket. Last week we enjoyed the last of the spring strawberries along with the first of the blueberries and black raspberries. This is our first taste of the black raspberries [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31st, 2010
The harvests last week seemed to mostly involve the colors green and red. In the green camp we had:
Arugula
Garlic Scapes
Lettuce
The broccoli was bluish-green
In the red zone we had:
Cherries
Strawberries
The radicchio harvest seemed to be both green and red:
Our most memorable meal from the week’s bounty was the day we made pesto and used it on pita [...]
Posted in Gardening, Photography on May 28th, 2010
It’s cherry time here at Happy acres!
This tree was here when we arrived, so we don’t know the variety. We have two more cherry trees we did plant, but they are still small and only have a few cherries on them. The big tree is loaded this year, after getting zapped by late freezes last [...]
Posted in Gardening on May 17th, 2010
It’s now mid-May, and the harvests are slowly transitioning from the leafy greens of late winter and early spring to the more substantial fruits and vegetables of late spring and summer. Which means our diet is in transition as well.
We’re getting small harvests of strawberries every day, enough to have topping our breakfast yogurt, plus [...]
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